{"product_id":"the-age-of-entitlement-america-since-the-sixties","title":"The Age of Entitlement: America Since the Sixties","description":"\u003cdiv data-a-expander-name=\"book_description_expander\" data-a-expander-collapsed-height=\"280\" class=\"a-expander-collapsed-height a-row a-expander-container a-spacing-base a-expander-partial-collapse-container\" style=\"max-height: none; height: 280px;\"\u003e \u003cdiv data-expanded=\"false\" class=\"a-expander-content a-expander-partial-collapse-content\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px;\"\u003e \u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eA major American intellectual and “one of the right’s most gifted and astute journalists” (\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e) makes the historical case that the reforms of the 1960s, reforms intended to make the nation more just and humane, left many Americans feeling alienated, despised, misled—and ready to put an adventurer in the White House.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChristopher Caldwell has spent years studying the liberal uprising of the 1960s and its unforeseen consequences and his conclusion is this: even the reforms that Americans love best have come with costs that are staggeringly high—in wealth, freedom, and social stability—and that have been spread unevenly among classes and generations.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eCaldwell reveals the real political turning points of the past half-century, taking you on a roller-coaster ride through \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003ePlayboy \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003emagazine, affirmative action, CB radio, leveraged buyouts, iPhones, Oxycotin, Black Lives Matter, and internet cookies. In doing so, he shows that attempts to redress the injustices of the past have left Americans living under two different ideas of what it means to play by the rules.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eEssential, timely, hard to put down, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Age of Entitlement \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“is an eloquent and bracing book, full of insight” (\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eNew York \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003emagazine) about how the reforms of the past fifty years gave the country two incompatible political systems—and drove it toward conflict.\u003c\/span\u003e  \u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv class=\"a-expander-header a-expander-partial-collapse-header\" style=\"opacity: 1; display: block;\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"a-expander-content-fade\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"javascript:void(0)\" role=\"button\" data-action=\"a-expander-toggle\" class=\"a-declarative\" data-a-expander-toggle='{\"allowLinkDefault\":true, \"expand_prompt\":\"Read more\", \"collapse_prompt\":\"Read less\"}'\u003e\u003ci class=\"a-icon a-icon-extender-expand\"\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-expander-prompt\"\u003eRead more\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Simon \u0026 Schuster","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50548212334877,"sku":"9781501106910","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0901\/5692\/5213\/files\/9781501106910.jpg?v=1761675946","url":"https:\/\/bookdelico.com\/products\/the-age-of-entitlement-america-since-the-sixties","provider":"Book Delico ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}